Intentional cognitive inhibition is one way that has been found to be associated with susceptibility for auditory hallucinations (Anderson-Day, Smailes, Moffat, Mitrenga, Moseley, and Fernyhough, 2019). In a university sample, intentional inhibition capability, assessed with the Inhibition of Currently Irrelevant Memories (ICIM) task as well as a Directed Forgetting task was investigated. In addition, also source memory was investigated with a source memory task. The authors aim was to investigate in which way cognitive performance on the tasks was associated with auditory hallucination-proness and the susceptibility for thoughts that are intrusive.
The results revealed a signifacant association among auditory hullucination-proness and performance on the ICIM task. However, there was no relationship found for the Directed Forgetting task and the source memory task in these participants.
Intrusive thoughts were found to be mediating among intentional inhibition and auditory hallucination-proness. According to the authors, their data are suggestive of task such as the ICIM task pick out a tendence for experiencing cognitions that are intrusive and auditory hallucination-proness (Alderson-Day et al., 2019).
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